They thought they had escaped Banoi, but can't wake up from this nightmare. Thrown back into the midst of the Zombie outbreak, the fight for survival continues! Dead Island Riptide takes players to the island of Palanai on the Banoi archipelago, infested with bloodthirsty Zombies and only a few...

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Lag Fix For Dead Island Riptide!

Hello, I've just purchased this game for myself and I was very upset with the amount of lag I was getting, so I done some research, and only 2 fps improvments from all of what I could find, so I decided to try and configure the game myself and now I'm run...

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This is a simple guide that will show you how to get every achievement in Dead Island: Riptide.
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I'm having the coop partner freezing bug, and I was happy to discover this problem was around over a year ago so I can learn real quick just how much money we wasted. The game was on sale a friend of mine bought 3 copies for us to play, I was excited to p...

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Recommended

15.8 hrs on record

Posted: March 29

The original Dead Island was an enjoyable experience despite it's numerous flaws. Riptide addresses a few of these failings but it's essentially more of the same. It starts badly with a clichéd corrupt corporate suit and a conspiracy; thankfully however it's not the plot that drives Dead Island but the exploration, loot and combat. For all its poor writing and characterisation the setting is still superbly realised, a sun-drenched tropical island with just enough variation in locales to keep it interesting. Combined with the great combat and looting and there's still a lot to recommend with Riptide.

Apart from fixing a few bugs and being more stable the most noticeable changes to the formula are the addition of new transport, a zombie horde mode which happens at key moments as the story progresses and a handful of new zombie threats.

Cons:- Not an interesting story - Other than the main characters, all other charcters have the same facial animation, just diffrent clothings and voices- Grapnics aren't very good- Vehicles have terrible physics

I believe both Dead Island and Riptide are best played solo. Playing co-op is a completely different beast. Played solo Riptide is a tense game, one of fear and always looking over your shoulder. Played with friends it turns it into more of a fun fair, who can chop up the zombies faster than the other players with no tension and no sense of fear. So to best experience Dead Island I would recommend you skip the co-op and delve into what is still the best open-world zombie game available.

Dead Island: Riptide comes across as just another means of cashing in on the Dead Island franchise with very little effort in designing new weapons, areas, enemies, and characters. While it is true that Riptide feels like a stand alone expansion to its predecessor, it accomplishes so much more.

More workbenches allow for less backtracking. You are able to repair, upgrade, and mod your weapons more often thanks to the larger abundance of workbenches within the game world. The starting level is increased to 15 to allow for players to jump right into the game, becoming zombie killing machines right off the bat.

Storywise, Riptide doesn't really accomplish anything special or memorable, but it does deliver a much better performance than the first. The story focuses more on the survivors of the first game, giving them an actual story rather than just leaving them as blank slates. This helps to create a smooth often laughable B Zombie narrative.

The combat hasn't changed much from the first, but thanks to the starting level increase, it makes the game feel more consistent. The first Dead Island didn't understand if it wanted to be a survival or action game, where as Riptide is an action zombie massacre game through and through.

Overall, Riptide is actually a pretty damn good zombie game. Highly reccommended if you're looking for a zombie game or just a nice co-op game. 8/10